[durron597]

Preflop you have to make the decision: do I want to risk my whole stack on the chips gained from making a pot sweetening bet that he must call and letting him see a cheap flop.

He did not make an FTOP mistake - he is correct to call you with 55 if he knows you have KK because he will likely stack you the times he makes a set unless an A flops. The other problem is that you sometimes let him get away cheap when you have him dominated, or you can invite him to take the pot away from you when he has an underpair and an A flops. Imagine he has JJ, and the flop comes AQx. He will call the larger raise anyway but the hand becomes very tough to play.

Also, didn't give the other stack sizes at the table - if you were both in fact very large stacks (30 BB sounds large) then playing it like this adds unnecessary risk. I don't like pushing preflop, but I would raise to like 3000-3200.